Brooklyn Public Library launched its first mobile app, My BPL, available for iPhone and Android. The app allows readers to personalize their library experience on-the-go by finding new titles, searching the library catalog, save to-read lists of eBooks, manage your library account, find branch info and scan an ISBN with your phone to search library collections.
For more information, visit http://www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/my-bpl-mobile-apps.
The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership just launched a new website, downtownbrooklyn.com which highlights all things Downtown Brooklyn including events, things to do in the area, local businesses and special deals from local downtown businesses.
The Center for Communication, along with Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, will host a two panels on the start-up scene. The events will focus on breaking into the scene, and, advice from start-up employees. Both panels are on January 31st; RSVP are required.
What goes into creating a tech start-up, and why does New York have increasing allure as the best place to do it? Almost 500 start-ups in NYC received venture financing from 2007 to 2011, and it looks like 2012 is going to beat the average for the last four years.
Clifford J. Schorer,Entrepreneur in Residence, The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center
Rob Fassino, Co-founder; EVP, Product Development & Product Management, XO Group Inc.
Mo Koyfman, General Partner, Spark Capital
David Rose, Founder and CEO, Gust
Rachel Haot, Chief Digital Officer, NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment
Moderator: Bianca Bosker, Senior Tech Editor, The Huffington Pos
WHEN: Thursday, January 31, 6:00 to 7:15 pm
WHERE: Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn Campus, Flatbush Ave. (DeKalb & Willoughby)
RSVP: visit www.cencom.org, email info@cencom.org or call 212-686-5005
Raising funds for a start-up can be difficult and daunting, and once potential investors are identified, the real work begins. Hear from those who have taken the plunge and learned how to swim with the sharks.
Hursh Agrawal, Co-Founder, Branch
Ben McKean, Co-Founder and CEO, Savored
Vinicius Vacanti, Co-Founder and CEO, Yipit
Kathryn Minshew, CEO & Founder, The Daily Muse & Company Muse
Kellee Khalil, Founder, Lover.ly
Moderator: Caroline McCarthy,BusinessMarketing Manager, Google
WHEN: Thursday, January 31, 7:15 to 8:30 pm
WHERE: Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn Campus, Flatbush Ave. (DeKalb & Willoughby)
RSVP: visit www.cencom.org, email info@cencom.org or call 212-686-5005
The City today announced a pilot program to add free public Wi-Fi at payphone kiosks throughout the five boroughs. Here are the 10 initial locations with Wi-Fi service. Additional hotspots will come in the following months.Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Heights-Cobble Hill: 545 Albee Square and 2 Smith Street
Queens
- Astoria: 30-94 Steinway Street
Manhattan
- SoHo: 402 West Broadway
- Fur-Flower District: 458 Seventh Avenue
- Theater District-Clinton: 28 West 48th Street
- Grand Central-United Nations: 410 Madison Avenue
- Midtown-Clinton: 1609 Broadway and 1790 Broadway
- Upper West Side: 230 West 95th Street
The Northside Festival, Brooklyn’s biggest music, film, art and innovation event, is returning this year with over 350 bands, 50 new films, Northside Open Studios, and a new track: Northside Entrepreneurship. The 8-day festival will be held June 14-21, 2012 and sprawls across venues in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Downtown Brooklyn.
Northside Entrepreneurship (June 14-15) highlights “what’s next” by bringing together New York City’s top innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors through more than 40 panels, 100 speakers, and 20,000 square feet of exhibition space. Find out more about the panelists and schedule at www.northsidefestival.com.
Don’t miss “Startup Campus” on June 14th at NYU-Poly’s Downtown Brooklyn/Metrotech campus, where Northside Festival is partnering with NYU, NYU-Poly and the newly announced NYU CUSP – one of our Applied Sciences NYC campuses! The day-long program pairs young innovators with established business leaders in wide-ranging discussions moderated by academics from NYU and NYU-Poly. Check out the full schedule. Free shuttles from the Northside Warehouse at 149 Kent to the Startup Campus will be running regularly throughout the day.
NYCEDC has been advised that Northside Festival is giving away free Entrepreneurship badges while supplies last and on a first-come basis. To grab a free pass, please complete this form on NYCEDC’s website. Northside Festival will contact you through email to let you know further instructions on picking up your badge. See you in Brooklyn!
Join Brooklyn Tech Triangle in an informal setting for an announcement of upcoming summer programs, an update on the Brooklyn Tech Triangle initiative, and an opportunity to get to know each other.
Meet other creative and tech professionals and learn more about the economic impact of Brooklyn’s tech and creative sectors today and the potential for growth in the greater Downtown Brooklyn area
WHEN: Thursday, May 24 2012, 6:00pm-7:30pm
WHERE: NYU-Poly, 5 MetroTech Center, Room LC400
RSVP by Monday, May 21 to Kathleen Wolter, 718.403.1617 or kwolter@dbpartnership.org
Brooklyn-based MakerBot, 3-D printer manufacturer, is expanding to MetroTech and planning on adding at least 50 jobs this year alone. According to one of the company’s founders, Bre Pettis, “We’re going to put the tech in Metrotech”
Read more in the Wall Street Journal
Crain’s New York Business reports on Brooklyn’s Tech Hotbed:
Dumbo and its neighbors the Brooklyn Navy Yard and downtown Brooklyn make up a distinct area that supports some 525 tech and creative firms employing more than 9,600 people, according to a study to be released this week. While that’s only a fraction of the city’s estimated 120,000 tech jobs, Brooklyn is drawing more Manhattan refugees who come for commercial rents (around 30% cheaper than in lower Manhattan) and the lifestyle.
And with the next Applied Sciences NYC Center for Urban Science and Progress coming to Downtown Brooklyn, it’s only going to get bigger and better.
Stylecaster, the community-driven fashion platform, has teamed up with the Internet’s answer to Zooey Deschanel, Etsy, to help bring accessible fashion to the masses.
The City of New York recently launched the #loveNYC photo contest on Facebook. Fans are encouraged to submit photos, showing what they love most about the City through April 6, 2012. Meet the Judges who will select the top 10 entries for public voting:
JEN BEKMAN (@JENBEE @20X200), FOUNDER + CEO, 20x200
MAL SHERLOCK (@MALACHYSHERLOCK), @FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER ON INSTAGRAM
RACHEL STERNE (@RACHELSTERNE), CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER, NYC DIGITAL, MAYOR’S OFFICE OF MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
SPENCER TUCKER, DIRECTOR, MAYOR’S PHOTOGRAPHY UNIT, CITY HALL
WILLY WONG (@WWONG), CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER, NYC & COMPANY
The judges will critique the entries on composition, subject matter, overall quality, and interpretation of the five boroughs.
We would like to thank all of the judges for their time and creative input. Their knowledge and experiences in art, photography, design, and technology are invaluable to the judging process.
We also want to acknowledge the partnership with Clear Channel Spectacolor for providing the opportunity for the winning photo to be displayed at Times Square on Spectacolor HD on 1560 Broadway.
So, if you love New York City as much as we do, then show how much you love this city by submitting a photo to the #loveNYC photo contest on Facebook.
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